Animated texture particle effect?

I'm still relatively new to SL. I've been messing around with particle effects and textures on them due to how they nicely keep a texture facing an individual viewing them. I know how to go about animating a texture in SL as well. I've been pondering how to get an animated texture working on a particle, so that i can leave sorta a tracer effect of the animated texture. Is there an easy way to do this, or would I need to manually use a timer to animate the particle with single textures?

You'd have to use a timer and keep changing the texture key/string since there is no lsl functions for it.

--Water

I had a bad feeling that was the case. Thanks for the answer.

Unfortunately, swapping the particle texture programatically is your only option there. More's the pitty - an animated particle would have so many uses.

working on it now

I never really have liked the look of 2 textures making a fake look of 3d unless it was the intended look for stuff like displays.

Keep in mind updating the particle causes full updates. If you had a 100 prim object and used a 0.1 second timer you can cause problems for people. Ive made a test object that does this on purpose, I got the client download rate to 700kbps(what I had set to my max DL rate) whenever it was on! lol.. so basically if you can keep it in a seperate prim and the rate as low as it still looks good

Ps, The lindens should just fix this.. Can anyone think of a reason a full update is needed to change a particle?